Kristin Makszin

Kristin Makszin is teaching Methods and Research Design at IRES in the Fall of 2011. She is a PhD candidate at the Political Science and International Relations departments and specializes in political economy. Her background is in mathematics and economics. Kristin's research focuses on how to use quantitative methods in social science for researching topics with limited available data or limited number of cases. Her dissertation research investigates the role of political parties in determining instances of reform and continuity of welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe. She also teaches statistics at McDaniel College Budapest and has served as a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC) at CEU.